Trump ‘most likely’ needs 60 votes in Senate to enact tariff plan, Sen. Rick Scott suggests

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Trump ‘most likely’ needs 60 votes in Senate to enact tariff plan, Sen. Rick Scott suggests
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There's a debate as to whether President-elect Donald Trump can enact a sweeping tariff plan with or without congressional approval.

"The tariffs, that most likely is going to require 60 unless there's some way we can get that done through reciliation with 51 ," ScottReconciliation is a way to pass tax and spending bills with a simple majority in the Senate. It avoids a filibuster, which requires 60 votes to overcome.A tariff is a tax on imported goods that is generally passed along to the consumer.

He's proposed others, too, such as a tariff of at least 200% on vehicles from Mexico, and a similar amount on the companyEconomic experts dispute whether Trump's tariff plan, especially the tax on global imports, can be done via executive action.in September that "Trump doesn't have the authority to do this."

However, Trump could "assert national security" or use "a lot of different things in the law" to potentially impose across-the-board tariffs, Jason Furman, a Harvard University professor and former chair of the Council of Economic Advisers during the Obama administration,

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